What are Working Groups?
Working groups are multi-discipline teams that work together, usually for bursts of 4-5 days, targeting some identified research opportunity. Working groups might meet 3-4 times over 2 years, or might only meet once. Products from working groups may include concept reviews, new data syntheses and theory, and proposals for fresh collaborative research.

List of Past and Current Working Groups

#	Topic	Meetings so far	Next meeting	Link
55	Function and cell size	0	In discussion
54	Future species distributions	0	In discussion
53	Fire and carbon budgets	0	26-28 November 2008, at ANU
52	Great western woodlands	0	18-20 November 2008, in Perth
51	Tropical podocarps	0	2-6 February 2009, Macquarie U
50	Stomata and climate change	0	4-7 November 2008, Macquarie U
49	Savanna structure	0	17-26 September 2008, in Darwin
48	Classifications for land management	1	In discussion
47	Marine floras	1	In discussion
46	Functional genomics of Australian plant ecology	0	9-12 December 2008, at ANU
45	Invasive plants in tropics	0	9-12 December 2008, at Macquarie U
44	Australasian vegetation scenarios	0	In discussion
43	Nitrogen in savannas	1	In discussion
42	Leaf temperature	1	In discussion
41	Reconstructing past estuarine conditions	1	In discussion
40	Anatomy of resprouting	0	In discussion
39	Wetland plant traits	0	17-21 Nov 2008, at Macquarie U
38	Leaf biomechanics	1	In discussion
37	Physiological and anatomical determinants of water-use efficiency of plants	1	In discussion
36	Trait driver models	1	In discussion
35	Global wood litter	1	In discussion
34	Arid Australia	1	In discussion
33	Allometry and composition	2	In discussion
32	Calibrating evolutionary dates for southern hemisphere plant clades	1	In discussion
31	Human-influenced countrysides and plant traits	1	25-30 Nov 2008, at Macquarie U
30	Plant population syndromes	1	In discussion
29	Herbivory	1	In discussion
28	Plot-based vegetation data exchange standard	1	June 2008, NESCent, USA
27	Wood anatomy and wood density	1	In discussion
26	Phosphorus in landscapes	1	In discussion
25	World leaf size patterns	1	In discussion
24	Fire, vegetation and climate change in Australasia	3	In discussion
23	Restoring degraded landscapes	1	In discussion
22	Urbanisation and plant functional traits	2	In discussion
21	Water use efficiency: relating d13C to instantaneous measures	1	in discussion
19	Decomposition of mixtures	1	In discussion
18	Assembly of southern-continent floras	2	In discussion
17	Species-specific decomposition	1	In discussion
15	Influential publications about vegetation in Australia	1	In discussion
14	Australian evolutionary radiations	2	In discussion
13	Stomata	1	completed
12	Gene function and expression in relation to ecology	2	in discussion
11	Ecology and history of NZ radiations (organized by Landcare Research NZ)	1	In discussion
9	Chronosequences, old soils and species properties (organized by Landcare Research NZ)	1	In discussion
8	Tree demography along environmental gradients (organized by Landcare Research NZ)	1	In discussion
7	Towards consistent site descriptions worldwide	1	In discussion
6	Third-generation models of carbon assimilation and water expenditure	1	morphed into other working groups
5	Linking species-level scale with whole-vegetation scale	1	morphed into other working groups
4	Vegetation schemes in earth system models	2	morphed into other working groups
3	Nitrogen and phosphorus in ecosystems	3	morphed into other working groups
2	Vascular design: comparison of theory strands	1	morphed into other working groups
1	Leaves: size, shape, economics, palaeobiology and evolutionary radiations	2	morphed into other working groups